Re: (texinfo) dfn - the double quotes around ``deleting'' are inconsistentwith (eintr) Complications ``variables''

[Van L]

> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
>> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 10:14:33 +0100
>> Cc: Texinfo <address@hidden>
>> 
>> I don't know the context for this discussion but I doubt that it is a
>> Texinfo bug. The Info viewer will display whatever types of quote were
>> in the Info file which depends on the version of Texinfo it was
>> generated with as well as the declared character encoding of the
>> source Texinfo file. Currently I believe that Unicode directional
>> double quotes are output for @dfn if the Texinfo file is declared to
>> be encoded in UTF-8. It may have been a mistake to ever use Unicode
>> directional single or double quotes in Info output (as it is for
>> terminal output - it's not supposed to look good) - but this should
>> not change now in my opinion as it would upset too many people.
> 
> I believe the issue is that texinfo.texi doesn't declare
> @documentlanguage, and therefore the Info output is produced as pure
> ASCII, and uses ASCII quoting "like this" instead of Unicode quoting
> “like this”.  The Emacs manuals use the latter.

Maybe this and the following result:

  (concat "abc" "def")"abcdef" ;; C-u C-x C-e

are things to make pretty with directional quotes in 5 or 10 years time.